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Project Name: The Career Circle
Client
The client intends to develop a full service social networking website. The site should include chat rooms; RSS news feed information, blogs, video content and E-commerce. The functionality of it has to be very simple and easy to use. The website should be searchable by Google for anyone who is searching general information as well as be able to link to different news websites online.
Why STPL?
STPL has specialized experience in social networking and e-commerce and experience with search engine optimization.

STPL's Software Development Service augments resources of any Software Development Group- Software Product Company to an internal IT function- in translating their product vision and technology leadership into functionality and features that bring value to end customers with quicker turnaround and more mileage from their IT spend.

At STPL, we safeguard the client's intellectual property, proprietary software and new development specifications. On completion of project, Clients retain full ownership of all intellectual property rights and software source code. We focus on helping you to get your project done Quickly, Efficiently and Effectively.
Benefits
  • Good Customer Experience
  • Faster Quality Productivity
  • Global Information Access
  • Reduce Overheads
  • WCAG Complaint
Project Overview
This is a social networking website which caters to the fortune 1000 company employees. It provides with features like chat rooms, RSS news feeds, blogs, video blogs, and E-commerce.


Various functionalities/modules of this Project are given below -

My Vision Board: A vision board is a bulletin board that allows a person to visualize their goals through images, quotes and keywords. So for example, if a businessman wants to start his own sporting goods store, he will put together a collage of pictures such as a picture of a current sports store, pictures of baseballs, basketballs, footballs, customers, money, etc. He will also write quotes like "Experience $1 million in sales my 1st year" or” Expand to 5 stores in the next 10 years."

Mail Box: An internal mailroom is provided to all users after successful registration.

Chat room:
An AJAX based Chat room is provided to talk with the colleagues in network.

Other Modules: Apart from above said functionalities, some other modules/sub modules are also incorporated like Profile Search, Request colleagues, Circle Group management, Calendar, Events, Blogs, Video Blogs, Five Star Rating module etc.

News:
User can create News feeds, Add feeds and mange RSS feeds other features include
User can view Top Stories, get weather information.




Circles: User can create his group and send invitations to others users (colleagues) to join his group.


Mailroom: User can compose mails, View his mails and check his sent mails to colleagues.



Watercoolers: These are basically chat rooms. Chat rooms can be selected on different categories. User can invite people around a watercooler



Other features include Video blogs, My blogs. Users can create their own blogs or share videos in Video blogs.



Challenges
Career Circle web application is not just a simple social networking website. It has some unique features like Vision Board etc. Majority of modules in Career Circle phase are very challenging in implementation.

Client needs Vision Board module to be developed as a bulletin board where a user can set his future goals in visual manner. User will have the option to upload Photos and add text on vision board. After uploading photos/text, he can drag and drop photos and sticky texts to anywhere inside the board to change the things as per his need.

AJAX based chat room is also needed to chat among added colleagues. User will be provided various Rooms/Sub rooms categorized.

Another challenge was to implement AJAX based user rating module in Blogs/Video Blogs section. Here user can rate his colleague's blog using Five Star Rating System.

Solution
With extensive experiences and expertise with its resources, STPL, Inc. designed and developed this web application as per clients need.

The majority of challenges need the application to be asynchronous in nature. To solve this purpose AJAX and web services are used extensively to give the application a decent look and feel and the same time smooth operation.
Technology Used
  • . NET FRAMEWORK 2.0
  • ASP.NET 2.0
  • C# 2.0
  • Ajax
  • DHTML
  • CSS
  • IIS 6.0
  • Scripting Languages - JavaScript, VB Script
  • Database - SQL Server 2005
  • Testing Tools – QTP 9.2 , Dev Partner


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